LG Anil Baijal surprised over Arvind Kejriwal complaint

New Delhi: Lieutenant governor Anil Baijal on Monday expressed surprise over Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s complaint that he and his ministers were “kept in dark” about the work done on resolving the city’s traffic bottlenecks. The chief minister had on July 6 written a letter to Mr Baijal stating that he and his Cabinet colleagues were not aware of the constitution of six task forces by the L-G to deal with traffic congestion in the city.

In his letter to the chief minister, Mr Baijal cited several meetings attended by PWD Minister Satyendar Jain and secretary to transport minister on the issue. “The lieutenant-governor  expressed surprise that the CM and his ministers did not have any knowledge of the issue, despite so much work been done in the last six months with the minister (Mr Jain) attending the meetings or being informed from time to time, and the issue itself getting so much of media coverage,” the L-G office said in a statement.

He said the statement (CM’s July 6 letter) about the elected government being kept in dark did not appear to be based on facts.

“In today’s letter, the chief minister was informed by the LG that minutes of the very first meeting he chaired to review submission of the six task forces on March 28 was endorsed to the secretary to minister (Transport),” the L-G office’s statement said.